Archive for 'Cool N.C. Business'
The Rock & Shop Market, Photo Shoot
We’ve been busy here behind-the-scenes preparing for The Rock & Shop Market on Saturday December 4th in Durham. Are you coming? It’s going to be awesome – food trucks, amazing vendors and really great bands. Here’s the facebook invite with more details. Last week we did a photo & video shoot at Fullsteam Brewery, one [...]
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Indie Kids: about town
One of our favorite places to visit in Raleigh, especially during the holidays, is Logan Trading Company. The family-owned garden shop lives in an old train depot, which gives it really unique character. We’ve shopped there for years, for everything from bird seed to fall pansies. And Seaboard Cafe serves up some of the best [...]
The Day of the Dead at Pura Vida Worldly Art
Hi everyone! I’m Brooke from the newly launched My Indie Charlotte and I am honored to be indieNC’s guest contributor for the week! This week on indieNC, I will be showcasing some of my favorite crafty people and places from the Queen City. Pura Vida Worldy Art is one of the most beautiful shops in [...]
Profile: Mel Thomas, Troika
Troika is a music festival that takes place in Durham from November 4-6. Started by Mel Thomas, the owner of the label 307 Knox Records, in 2002, the event features a huge roster of North Carolina bands as well as a newer offering, a craft show. Tell us about Troika: A group of music-loving volunteers [...]
Pittsboro Pepper Festival
The third annual Pittsboro Pepper Festival is coming up this Sunday October 3rd from 4-7pm. The event will benefit the Abundance Foundation and the Piedmont Biofarm. The Abundance Foundation is focused on both renewable energy and local food, and has been supporting Farmer Doug Jones’s research at Piedmont Biofarm for many years. There will be [...]
Coming soon to Raleigh: PieBird!
Who doesn’t love pie? I mean, think of all the yummy stuff you can tuck in between two pie crusts. Fruit, chocolate, custards, coconut, even meats and veggies. Hello, chicken pot pie. My dream pie? An eggy, cheesy, bacon-y concoction with more bacon on top. Give me a fork. So it goes without saying that [...]
Handmade Chocolate From Mountains to Sea
Whenever we head out west to Asheville, one of my favorite stops, in addition to the Early Girl Eatery and Malaprops Bookstore, is The Chocolate Fetish. Everything there is handmade, and everything is GOOD. Beyond good. With Valentine’s Day around the corner (and we all know the real reason for V-Day is to eat chocolate), I [...]
NOFO at the Pig Will Cure What Ails You
All of this ridiculously cold (and WINDY) weather has me in a funk. So for a little cheer, I visited one of my favorite spots in Raleigh, NOFO at the Pig. And then I figured, hey, I’ll stick around for lunch so I can post about the entire NOFO experience for indieNC. All in the [...]
Hello Indie Greensboro!
Hello! We’re This Paper Ship, and we’ll be contributing to the IndieNC Blog all week! Our first post comes a little later in the day than we had originally intended, but the reason for it is a great one: we just finished moving our household, three cats, and studio into our new apartment in downtown [...]
Preview Party at the Cotton Room
Yesterday I got to attend a preview party at The Cotton Room! But before I tell you about The Cotton Room, a bit of Durham history might be in order… In the 1880s Durham, NC became home to many tobacco companies and textile mills. What’s now called Golden Belt was originally The Golden Belt Manufacturing [...]
